Tarot · Wands
Six of Wands
Six of Wands - Fire
Correspondences
- Element
- Fire
- Planet
- Jupiter
- Sign
- Leo
- Number
- 6
- Yes / no
- Yes upright, No reversed
Traditional Golden Dawn attributions. The yes / no value is a convention for single-card questions, not a prediction.
Upright
A hard-won success is being recognized publicly.
Six of Wands. A hard-won success is being recognized publicly. As a Six it is recovery after the crisis: equilibrium restored, usually with help, and usually with something given away to get it. In Wands, that stage plays out in ambition, drive and creative fire. Its sign is Leo, which displays: the heart made visible, generous and proud, needing to be genuinely seen rather than merely tolerated. Being Fire, it resolves through action rather than deliberation. Its keyword range runs through victory, public recognition, earned confidence, and success celebrated.
Reversed
Recognition has not arrived, or pride has curdled into arrogance.
Six of Wands reversed. Recognition has not arrived, or pride has curdled into arrogance. Under Jupiter, it enlarges whatever it touches: opportunity and generosity, together with the excess that arrives with both. Reversed here, it has overrun its own measure, the same force carried past the point where it served you and into the point where it costs you. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: excess pride, lack of recognition, a fall from favor, and self-doubt after success.
About the Tarot
A 15th-century Italian card game that was turned to fortune-telling only 350 years later.
The upright and reversed meanings here follow the mainstream Rider-Waite-Smith reading tradition. A reversed card is treated as the same force blocked, turned inward, or overexpressed - not simply as its opposite.
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